Guessing game

Abstract

A game board for a guessing game includes a number of separate game board elements each for one of the players of the game. Each game board element includes four groups of recesses which, within each group, are arranged in rows indicated by numerals, and in columns indicated by alphabet letters. Each of the groups is associated with one of the players and is identified as such by a symbol of the respective player. A shield is mounted on the respective game board element and conceals the same from view by the other players. The shield has a set of predetermined patterns thereon from which each player selects one and positions one or more indicators into the respective recesses of one of the groups in accordance therewith. The players, in turn, call for the intersections of the rows and columns of the other players to determine whether an indicator is present or absent from the particular intersection. The presence or absence of the indicator from the respective intersection has to be revealed by the questioned player. Each player indicates the presence and absence of the indicators from the intersections of the other players in the proper groups of recesses by indicators which are of a different color for indicating the presence than for indicating the absence of the indicators of the others players. When the presence of a sufficient number of indicators has been revealed, the players may guess the pattern selected by the other players.

I claim: 
     
       1. A game comprising, in combination, a game board including at least two spaced playing portions each for use by one of at least two players and each having markings thereon which are indicative of playing locations arranged at intersections of at least two intersecting arrays of imaginary lines; at least one set of indicators adapted to be so positioned at said playing locations as to be observable by the respective one and concealed from the other of the players and to form a pattern on the respective playing portion which conforms to at least one of a limited set of patterns available to the players for selection at the beginning of a particular game, and to be removed from the respective playing location of said playing portion of the one player when the position thereof at the respective intersection of said imaginary lines of said arrays is correctly guessed by the other player; and one or more concealment means with two major surfaces each of which has a different set of patterns to conceal each player's playing location.